286, Lot: 40. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Skione. Circa 480-454/3 BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.32 g, 6h). Male head right, wearing tainia / Human eye in the Archaic style within incuse square. SNG ANS 710 (no tainia, left rather than right eye on rev.); SNG Copenhagen 318 var. (same); BMC -; Rosen -; Klein -. VF, toned. Nice for these.

From the Peter Lee Collection.

The BMC catalog describes a similar tainia on a “head/helmet” type as “tied in front.”